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A story by Max Lacado
Deciding something was wrong, the man took scissors and snipped the remaining bit of cocoon.
The moth emerged easily, its body large and swollen, the wings small and shriveled.
Once there was an old man who lived in a tiny village.
Although poor, he was envied by all, for he owned a beautiful white horse.
Even the king coveted his treasure.
A horse like this had never been seen before -- such was its splendor, its majesty, its strength.
He expected that in a few hours the wings would spread out in their natural beauty, but they did not.
Instead of developing into a creature free to fly, the moth spent its life dragging around a swollen body and shriveled wings.
People offered fabulous prices for the steed, but the old man always refused.
"This horse is not a horse to me," he would tell them.
"It is a person.
How could you sell a person?
He is a friend, not a possession.
How could you sell a friend?"
The man was poor and the temptation was great.
But he never sold the horse.
The constricting cocoon and the struggle necessary to pass through the tiny opening are God's way of forcing fluid from the body into the wings.
The "merciful" snip was, in reality, cruel.
Sometimes the struggle is exactly what we need.
One morning he found that the horse was not in the stable.
All the village came to see him.
"You old fool," they scoffed, "we told you that someone would steal your horse.
We warned you that you would be robbed.
You are so poor.
How could you ever hope to protect such a valuable animal?
It would have been better to have sold him.
You could have gotten whatever price you wanted.
No amount would have been too high.
Now the horse is gone, and you've been cursed with misfortune."
Beth Landers.
The old man responded, "Don't speak too quickly.
Say only that the horse is not in the stable.
That is all we know; the rest is judgment.
If I've been cursed or not, how can you know?
How can you judge?"
A famous evangelist told the following incident: I have a friend who in a time of business recession lost his job, a sizable fortune, and his beautiful home.
To add to his sorrow, his precious wife died; yet he tenaciously held to his faith -- the only thing he had left.
One day when he was out walking in search of employment, he stopped to watch some men who were doing stonework on a large church.
One of them was chiseling a triangular piece of rock.
'Where are you going to put that?' he asked.
The workman said, 'Do you see that little opening up there near the spire?
Well, I'm shaping this stone down here so that it will fit in up there.'
Tears filled my friend's eyes as he walked away, for the Lord had spoken to him through that laborer whose words gave new meaning to his troubled situation.
The people contested, "Don't make us out to be fools!
We may not be philosophers, but great philosophy is not needed.
The simple fact is that your horse is gone is a curse."
The old man spoke again.
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